"The Carrogh's Due" by Anastasia Geneave

Six people are missing. The only thing they have in common? The river.

Detective Rowan Ashcraft doesn’t get the easy cases. As a detective with the Paranormal Crime Division, she takes on cases that ordinary police can’t touch or won’t believe in.

This one is different from the start. Every so often, someone goes near the river and doesn’t come back. Until one does, and when he reappears, he’s different. Haunted.

With her partner Callum along for the ride (equal parts good instincts and bad jokes), Rowan starts pulling threads that go back further than either of them are ready for. A cover-up that’s closer to home than Callum could have ever expected. A pattern that isn’t random. And a window that’s closing fast, because whatever’s waiting under the river doesn’t open it’s ledger often, and it’s almost time again.

Rowan’s got a daughter to get home to every night, office politics to navigate and a list of people running out of time. Working out what the Carrogh actually wants might be the only way to bring them back, but when every discovery leads to more questions, will they find the answers they are owed?

"The Carrogh’s Due" is the first in The Fifth Point Series, an Australian urban fantasy mystery for readers who want their supernatural crime with banter, real emotional stakes and a river witch who’s more complicated than evil.

About the Author

Anastasia is a storyteller who writes from the depths of her subconscious, where dreams don’t just whisper, they scream, shimmer, and linger for decades. Since childhood, she’s carried an entire dreamscape: recurring visions of hidden rivers, strange cities, time slips, supernatural encounters, and the constant thrill of being chased by something unseen (but definitely sinister).

Her stories are stitched together from these real, weird, and wonderful dreams, some recurring since she was a kid, others arriving in wild bursts of inspiration at 3am. The result? Fiction that feels like a memory from another life: familiar, eerie, and just a bit magical.

When she’s not writing, Anastasia runs a creative business, raises two tiny tornadoes (aka children), and still occasionally wakes up wondering if that dream was a story, a prophecy, or a glitch in the simulation.

New Book Covers for the Wulfric the Wanderer Series

Charles Moffat has released new book covers for his Wulfric the Wanderer series, set within the kingdom of Korovia. What makes Wulfric the Wanderer different from other wandering Sword & Sorcery heroes? Time travel. All he truly wants is to find his beloved Tahira and go back home.

Visit fiction.charlesmoffat.com/Wulfric-the-Wanderer.html to learn more.

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Cult of the She-Bear by Charles Moffat	Portal of Destiny by Charles Moffat
Shifting Shadows in Iztark by Charles Moffat	The Raven's Feast by Charles Moffat
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"Where the Stone Opens" by J Nymera

Faerie noticed you first.
It noticed Rowan too.

Rowan didn’t mean to cross into Faerie. She certainly didn’t mean to become important.

Faerie is a realm of divided courts, living magic, and rules no one explains until it’s far too late. Names carry weight. Time misbehaves. Shadows linger where they shouldn’t. And something bound long ago is beginning to listen.

As Rowan is drawn into fae politics, ancient oaths, and a growing sense that no one is telling her the whole truth, she begins to realise that Faerie itself is fraying; and that surviving it may matter more than defeating whatever waits beneath the stone.

It is a story about the allure of forbidden thresholds, and the slow, terrifying question of whether the desire to open them is truly your own.

Where the Stone Opens is a dark, lyrical faerie fantasy about grief, identity, and messy survival. Expect morally complicated magic, queer found family, sharp humour cutting through dread, and a world that remembers what you try to forget.

Side effects may include: emotional attachment, unease about mirrors, and a strong desire to read the next book.

Some things are not meant to wake.
But stories have a way of remembering.

"Where the Stone Opens" is the first book of The Fractured Spiral by J Nymera, a Gaslamp Fairy LGBTQ+ Fantasy.

About the Author

J Nymera dwells in the strange space between worlds: where stories ache, doors remember, and keys whisper truths best left buried. A queer, neurodivergent writer drawn to the edges of magic and identity, they write dark, liminal fantasy for anyone who’s ever felt like an exile from their own story. Their work threads grief with wonder, longing with defiance, and always, always seeks the light inside the cracks. 

"Wriggly Little Hands" by Alex Knight

If you want something done right, don't send a goblin.

But the Dark Lord’s under siege and those pesky forces of Good might finally do him in. For Oli the goblin and his cousins, it's finally their chance to serve the Big Boss. And so, they set out on a super secret quest to retrieve the doomsday weap—on a road trip to see their family.

With the hopes of every creature sinister and foul riding on them, the goblins hurry directly to their destination. Mostly directly. And... since they're headed that way, maybe they could deliver some evil packages that are way overdue?

Agents of Good pursue every step of the way, but with empty heads and too-big hearts, Oli and his bumbling family deliver the packages (mostly), sabotage the forces of evil (accidentally), and save their Dark Lord (probably).

The final battle’s brewing between good and evil, and the fate of the world rests in Oli’s wriggly little hands.

Gods help us all.

"Wriggly Little Hands" is a Cozy Comedic Fantasy featuring lots of dark humour and is written by Alex Knight. "Wriggly Ever After" is the sequel.

About the Author

Alex Knight (notabilis mendax) is a midlist author endemic to the coastal wetlands of North America. A member of the scriptum mendaces family, he is best known for his books (so popular they crash global markets) and his firm grasp on reality.

His original habitat was confined to crumpled notebooks, but due to his meddling persistence, has expanded to include such works as Wriggly Little Hands, The Far Wild, Servant of Rage, and more.

"Year One: Reaper Academy" by JD Goland

In a world where Death is not only revered but streamed and celebrated.

Tia is a poor girl from Kingsile who has struggled most of her life. That's the life for most Kingsile inhabitants in this world. The only thing she has looked forward to is The Text. On the day of your eighteenth birthday, each person gets a text from the famous Reaper Academy: "Do you Want to Join?" She was counting down the days, the minutes till that text came. She was determined to become a Reaper and provide a life of wealth, luxury, and food for her family.

But the week before the text came, she discovered something about herself that would change everything.

Everyone gets their magic from the entrance exam at Reaper Academy, at least that's what she heard. But on that first day, she learned the deadly truth. You don't go to the school hoping to pass; you go to the school hoping to survive. Now with her secret in tow, she must deal with elusive professors who have too much interest in her, enigmatic headmasters who speak to her as if she is a part of some larger plan she doesn't know, and Death himself, who seems to have a more questionable past than even her elusive roommate, Riven...

In a world where Death is celebrated, where does a woman stand with the gift of life?

"Year One: Reaper Academy" by JD Goland is a Coming of Age Teen/YA Dark Fantasy.

About the Author

"A happily married father of three! A man who has loved the fantasy world for so very long, I finally decided to sit down and write my own. I genre mash quite a bit, fantasy mixed with many other genres such as thrillers and mysteries. I always have something cooking up that will be fresh, unique, authentic and visual. The Silver Series showed me just how much I loved to write, so now I write all types of novels across the realm that will keep you glued to the pages with wonder and excitement!"